Peace, Love & Petrol Bombs

A humorous and poignant novel about anarchism: possibly a first? This young Scots burger-flipper turned street protester tells what happened a decade ago in a fast-food kitchen, a small town, and at the barricades of anti-capitalist demonstrations in Prague, London, and Thessaloniki. Johnston enlivens this short, accomplished coming-of-age story with what appears to be a character based on himself, given Wayne Foster’s age and tenure at Benny’s Burgers. He travels throughout Europe as he rallies against “profit before people”.